"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

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Monday, February 11, 2013

The Audacity of Pope

Let's see if we have this straight:

an octogenarian virgin to whom millions of people in industrialized nations pretend to take reproductive advice from, and millions more in impoverished, overpopulated shitholes really do take advice from;

a man who has spent most of his life (his deity's most precious gift) protecting and enabling child rapists, pushing women around, and pretending to care for the poor whilst presiding over a massive fortune in money and property, and keeping said poor in eternal poverty by exhorting them to overbreed;

a man who has dedicated his entire career to sweeping institutionalized corruption under the proverbial rug;